In a piece in The Conversation, IRIS Executive Director Jason Owen-Smith makes the case that Congress is failing to keep its promise on increased research funding, which threatens the long-term health of the American economy. The recent budget deal and President...
The importance of creating good quality jobs has been highlighted in much recent legislation, including the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the InfrastructureInvestment and Jobs Act, as well as the renewal of existing legislation such as...
The highlights of the past year at IRIS included: A project funded by the NSF that will help understand how investments in research relate to jobs and innovative industries in specific parts of the country. A project supported by Wellcome Leap on identifying the...
About half of all science and engineering doctorate recipients who graduate from U.S. research-intensive institutions receive research funding during their graduate studies, according to an InfoBrief from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics...
A recent article in Nature found that scientific papers and patents are becoming less innovative and disruptive to existing knowledge. To help understand why that may be, researchers at the Institute for Research on Science and Innovation (IRIS) at the University of...
